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SUMMARY:East Bay Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:See real local art this June!  \nEast Bay Open Studios returns for two free weekends with over 180 artists opening their studios to the public. This free\, self-guided event invites you to wander into local studios\, galleries\, and community hubs in Oakland\, Berkeley\, and beyond. Come curious — meet the creative minds behind the work\, experience art where it’s made\, and leave inspired. \nKick things off at our free Opening Party & Exhibition at Orchard Galleries on Saturday\, May 30th (11am–5pm); a family-friendly day of art\, music\, food\, and a community exhibition celebrating our 20th anniversary!  \nNot sure where to start? Explore our Emerging Artists\, Community Hubs\, or find your favorite artwork using our Artist Directory! \n🎉 Opening Party: May 30\, 11am–5pm @ Orchard Galleries\n🗓️ Open Studios: June 6-7 and 13-14; 11am–5pm daily\n📍  Art in your neighborhoods across the East Bay\n🎫 Get your free ticket: Eventbrite \nHOW TO PARTICIPATE:\n1. Visit eastbayopenstudios.com\n2. Browse artist profiles or use the interactive maps (Weekend 1 + Weekend 2)\n3. Don’t know where to start? Check out our Emerging Artists\,Community Hubs\, and Special Events.\n4. Choose your route and hit the studios! Open 11am–5pm each day
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SUMMARY:Art Murmur First Friday at Werkshack
DESCRIPTION:Werkshack is pleased to present “Kummerspeck”\, recent Sculpture and Mixed Media work by Bay Area artists Kelly DeFayette and Cybele Gerachis.   \nKummerspeck is a German word that translates to “grief bacon” — the weight gained from emotional overeating\, or\, more broadly\, the ways people absorb and deal with discomfort\, emotional confusion\, and uncertainty. \nThis show does not illustrate the term as much as it moves through its emotional atmosphere. Across sculpture\, painting\, and mixed media\, the work reflects making sense of creating amidst the pressure to adapt to a world constantly reshaping itself. \nIt also radiates humor\, sarcasm\, and material pleasure.  The stubborn act of making something by hand while much around you feels out of human scale. There is no substitute for the act of making something – as a way to process\, archive\, feel\, and connect. \nThe exhibition invites viewers into that shared space between grief and pleasure\, vulnerability and spectacle — and asks what kind of meaning can still be built from the fragments around us – the scraps of paper or the bric-a-brac at the thrift store.  \n Meet the artists during this Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Event!
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/art-murmur-first-friday-at-werkshack/
LOCATION:Werkshack\, 481 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:East Bay Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:See real local art this June!  \nEast Bay Open Studios returns for two free weekends with over 180 artists opening their studios to the public. This free\, self-guided event invites you to wander into local studios\, galleries\, and community hubs in Oakland\, Berkeley\, and beyond. Come curious — meet the creative minds behind the work\, experience art where it’s made\, and leave inspired. \nKick things off at our free Opening Party & Exhibition at Orchard Galleries on Saturday\, May 30th (11am–5pm); a family-friendly day of art\, music\, food\, and a community exhibition celebrating our 20th anniversary!  \nNot sure where to start? Explore our Emerging Artists\, Community Hubs\, or find your favorite artwork using our Artist Directory! \n🎉 Opening Party: May 30\, 11am–5pm @ Orchard Galleries\n🗓️ Open Studios: June 6-7 and 13-14; 11am–5pm daily\n📍  Art in your neighborhoods across the East Bay\n🎫 Get your free ticket: Eventbrite \nHOW TO PARTICIPATE:\n1. Visit eastbayopenstudios.com\n2. Browse artist profiles or use the interactive maps (Weekend 1 + Weekend 2)\n3. Don’t know where to start? Check out our Emerging Artists\,Community Hubs\, and Special Events.\n4. Choose your route and hit the studios! Open 11am–5pm each day
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/east-bay-open-studios/2026-06-06/
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SUMMARY:Oakland Art Murmur's 20th Anniversary Art Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland Art Murmur’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and East Bay Open Studios Opening Party \nFree and all-ages. Saturday\, May 30\, 2026\, 11am–5pm at Orchard Galleries\, 489 25th Street\, Oakland \nKick off summer with a block party celebrating two decades of East Bay art and community. The day features hands-on art-making activities\, live music and DJ sets\, immersive performers\, light bites\, wine\, and a community exhibition showcasing 100+ East Bay Open Studios artists — including OAM’s newest Emerging Artists cohort. Guest jurors will select and announce award winners. Art raffle tickets available at the event. \nThe exhibition continues Sunday\, May 31\, 12pm–4pm. East Bay Open Studios runs June 6–7 and June 13–14 across the East Bay.
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SUMMARY:Open First Friday: Built Different - Gina Gaiser
DESCRIPTION:Built Different is a black-and-white photography series by Gina Gaiser that examines the logic embedded in the urban landscape. Focusing on brickwork\, graffiti\, industrial surfaces\, and architectural grids\, Gaiser isolates fragments of the built environment and reframes them as studies in repetition\, contrast\, and form. Stripped of color\, the images emphasize structure and rhythm\, allowing overlooked details to surface with clarity. When assembled\, the photographs converge into larger visual systems\, revealing order within what might otherwise register as visual noise. Built Different reflects on construction in multiple senses\, of cities\, of environments\, and of perception itself\, proposing that heightened attention to pattern and geometry is not deviation\, but insight. \nApril 3 – May 9\, 2026\nArtist Reception: Saturday\, April 11\, 3-5 pm\nGallery Hours: Saturdays\, 12-5 pm & First Fridays\, April 3 & May 1\, 5-8 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/open-first-friday-built-different-gina-gaiser/2026-05-01/
LOCATION:Manna Gallery\, 473 25th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Dreamscapes” art by Daisuke Okamoto + Brenda Cibrian
DESCRIPTION:Artist Statement: Daisuke Okamoto\nDaisuke Okamoto’s work\, “OKAINA IMAGE” is an elaborate and involved system of ink line drawings representing identity and transformation\, exploring the cycle of life in the complex\, biomorphic narratives of the organic. \nDaisuke Okamoto was born and raised in Tokyo\, Japan\, and currently works and resides in Los Angeles\, California.  Okamoto’s art is heavily influenced by science fiction and psychedelic culture. Given his intense passion for repetitive line drawing\, Okamoto has been known to work over a year on a single piece. \nOkamoto partnered with Microsoft on a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 and made a mural for the ad campaign in 2022. And he has also done collaborative projects with PBS KCET in Southern California.\nOkamoto’s murals are in CA\, TX\, NV\, OR\, UT\, MI\, NY in the United States\, Tokyo Japan\, and Berlin Germany. \nArtist statement: Brenda Cibrian\nThrough paintings and murals I seek to make art that uplifts and creates connection within ourselves and with the world around us. My work starts with a feeling first then subject matter\, I then add in playful elements with a whimsical visual flair. I use surreal colors\, combine imagery that is in and out of focus\, with graphical\, symbolic shapes to tie compositions together. I like to explore themes of identity\, introspection\, core memories and nostalgia. Nature\, abstract shapes and people are recurring elements in my art and my influences come from my Mexican American upbringing in South Central as well as early 2000s internet culture. \nApril 3rd – May 30th\, 2026\nReceptions: First Friday\, April 3rd\, 5-10pm\nReceptions: First Friday\, May 1st\, 5-10pm \nHours:\nSaturdays 1-5pm\nEvery first Friday of the month 5-9pm\notherwise by appointment
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/dreamscapes-art-by-daisuke-okamoto-brenda-cibrian/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open First Friday: Built Different - Gina Gaiser
DESCRIPTION:Built Different is a black-and-white photography series by Gina Gaiser that examines the logic embedded in the urban landscape. Focusing on brickwork\, graffiti\, industrial surfaces\, and architectural grids\, Gaiser isolates fragments of the built environment and reframes them as studies in repetition\, contrast\, and form. Stripped of color\, the images emphasize structure and rhythm\, allowing overlooked details to surface with clarity. When assembled\, the photographs converge into larger visual systems\, revealing order within what might otherwise register as visual noise. Built Different reflects on construction in multiple senses\, of cities\, of environments\, and of perception itself\, proposing that heightened attention to pattern and geometry is not deviation\, but insight. \nApril 3 – May 9\, 2026\nArtist Reception: Saturday\, April 11\, 3-5 pm\nGallery Hours: Saturdays\, 12-5 pm & First Fridays\, April 3 & May 1\, 5-8 pm
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SUMMARY:"Who Am I?" portraits by Leslie Plato Smith
DESCRIPTION:For March we are honored to feature the work of local Bay Area artist Leslie Plato Smith\, in her latest show entitled\, “Who Am I?” \n“We are living in turbulent times. We are questioning our values\, beliefs\, and education. Our national leaders prove to be untrustworthy\, as the media feeds misleading narratives. Our history feels as uncertain as our future. We are having difficulty finding common ground\, the truth\, and what we stand for. Conflict is everywhere. Everyone is asking themselves: “Who Am I?” \nArtist Bio:\nChoctaw\, Viking\, AVChancellor\, Governmental Relations\, emerita. Highlights: national award for bringing together 60 art departments\, creating 125 life-size statues showing how budget cuts negatively impact access and opportunity\, democracy and upward mobility; European Cultural Centre’s Venice Biennale: “Who Are We?”; Spotlight Artist for Richmond Art Center\, “Vulnerability;” “Clay Sustains: Vessels of Change” Palo Alto Art Center. \nPlato Smith’s grandfather was born on the Choctaw Reservation and her orphaned grandmother was born to immigrant parents from Denmark and Sweden. Migration\, immigration\, resettlement and environment/wildlife are key themes that resonate through her creative practice and professional work. She is very committed to acknowledgement of ALL LIFE. Her mother\, Lee Plato Smith\, educated at California School of Fine Arts\, taught her to draw off the edge and never be afraid of making mistakes. \nMarch 6th – 28th\, 2026\nFirst Friday reception: March 6th 5-10pm \nHours:\nSaturdays 1-5pm\nEvery first Friday of the month 5-9pm\notherwise by appointment
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/who-am-i/
LOCATION:FM Gallery\, 483 25th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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